AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE

Half a moon, as the good song suggests, may be light enough for a good many evening activities. But the football game played by the light of the lunar orb would probably not comply with intercollegiate standards enough to warrant recognition as such.

Yet the tendency so much in evidence now towards evening gridiron frolics under the illumination of powerful arc lights is introducing an element into college football which may well prove alarming to those of the football-going public who consider the contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath can be in any way compensated for, is a question which will probably hold the new system in abeyance until its satisfactory solution.